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Acronyms & Terms
Thanks to Daniel Contreras (SEL) and Biomed Admin for seeding this list.
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| Acronym/Term | Description |
|---|---|
| Library Security System | |
| Administrative & Professional Series | |
| Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd edition | |
| Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries | |
| American Association of Law Libraries | |
| Associate Biomedical Librarian | |
| Advisory Committee on Cataloging (previous name of ACCM) | |
| Advisory Committee on Cataloging/Metadata (cataloging aspects of ORION and MELVYL®) | |
| Association of College and Research Libraries | |
| Administrative Conference (Replaced by Management Council) | |
| American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees | |
| American Federation of Teachers | |
| Anderson Graduate School of Management | |
| Area Health Education Center | |
| American Library Association | |
| Academic Personnel Manual | |
| Outside company that sends employees to photocopy library materials | |
| Association of Research Libraries | |
| Access Services Forum (Renamed Circulation Services Committee) | |
| American Society for Information Science & Technology | |
| Applied Science & Technology Index (covers popular scientific literature in all disciplines) | |
| Associated Students of UCLA | |
| Atmospheric Sciences Department | |
| Academic Technology Services (formerly OAC), provides high-end computing | |
| Associate University Librarian / Assistant University Librarian | |
| Audiovisual(s) | |
| Old OAC E-Mail (named after Ben Franklin) System | |
| Bibliographic Instruction | |
| Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library | |
| Electronic index - biological & life sciences | |
| Books in Print | |
| Biomedical Engineering (interdepartmental graduate degree program) | |
| Business Officer Institute | |
| Bruin Online (UCLA e-mail and Internet connectivity program/software) | |
| A series of journal issues that are given a book binding and shelved in the stacks | |
| Bibliographic Retrieval Service (vendor of online databases) | |
| Circulation Advisory Committee (Renamed Circulation Services Committee) | |
| Computer Assisted Instruction | |
| California Academic Libraries List of Serials (includes UC, CSUC, USC, Stanford) | |
| A permanent UCLA employee | |
| A temporary UCLA employee | |
| Cataloging On-Line (NLM database for cataloging) | |
| Cumulative Book Index | |
| Current Contents | |
| Collection Developmet Council (formerly CMC) | |
| California Digital Library | |
| Civil & Environmental Engineering Department (alternative abbreviation) | |
| Civil & Environmental Engineering Department | |
| Chemical Engineering Department | |
| Chemistry & Biochemistry Department | |
| Center for the Health Sciences | |
| Cataloging in Publication | |
| Catalog Information Service (YRL) | |
| California Library Association | |
| Cooperative Library Authority for Systems and Services | |
| College Library Instructional Computing Commons (computer labs in Powell) | |
| Collection Management Council (replaced by CDC) | |
| Committee On Circulation | |
| State Senate Committee on Library | |
| Electronic index - science, engineering, & technology (online equivalent of EI) | |
| Cooperative Online Serials Program | |
| Committee On Online User Services | |
| Cooperative Online Resource Catalog | |
| Committee On Reference, Research & Instruction | |
| Casual Personnel Action Form | |
| Core Reference Collection (ORION location=RFC) | |
| Computer Science Department | |
| Computer Science Department Reading Room (no longer exists) | |
| Circulation Services Committee | |
| Community Service Officer (UCPD student employees who patrol campus areas) | |
| Central Ticket Office | |
| Communication Technology Services, administers the Bruin Onlin (BOL) program | |
| Coalition of University Employees | |
| Electronic index - physical sciences & life sciences journals | |
| Digital Acquisitions Advisory Committee | |
| Data Access Coordinator | |
| Document Delivery Service | |
| A vendor of online databases | |
| Digital Library Council | |
| Data Migration Team | |
| NLM's automatic document (ILL) routing system | |
| Company that provided Ereserves (ERes) to UCLA | |
| Company that provided ORION2 (OPAC & TAOS) to UCLA | |
| East Asian Library | |
| Engineering & Applied Science (courses fundamental to all engineering majors) | |
| Former Education & Psychology Library (YRL took Ed. books, Biomed took Psych. books) | |
| Electrical Engineering Department | |
| Engineering Index | |
| Extramural Programs (part of NLM) | |
| Company that provides Voyager to UCLA | |
| Electronic Resources Database | |
| Electronic Reserves (index of library reserve books, weblinks, & downloadable course notes) | |
| Educational Resources Information Center | |
| English Department Reading Room | |
| Environmental Sciences & Engineering (interdepartmental graduate degree program) | |
| Engineering Society UC (student organization housing all UCLA engineering & technical societies) | |
| Executive Committee | |
| Fund Accounting System (ORION) | |
| Full Accounting Unit (Loc-account-cost center-fund-sub-object) | |
| General Assistance (funds which pay for casual workers) | |
| Electronic index - geological sciences journals, maps, & guidebooks | |
| Geographical Information System | |
| Graduate Reserve Service at YRL | |
| Graduate School of Education & Information Studies | |
| Graduate School of Library & Information Studies (merged with Edu. grad school to form GSE&IS) | |
| Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science | |
| Information Access Advisory Committee (IAAC) | |
| Information Access Advisory Committee | |
| Interactive Teaching (School of Medicine module) | |
| Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery Advisory Committee | |
| Information Literacy Initiative | |
| Interlibrary Loan | |
| Index Medicus | |
| Instructional Microcomputing Facility | |
| Instructional Media Lab (audio/video equipment in Powell for student use) | |
| An outside person who photocopies and circulates library materials for a fee | |
| Outside company that sends employees to photocopy library materials | |
| Electronic index - physics, electrical engineering, & computer science | |
| In Process File (ORION) | |
| Information Technology | |
| Jonsson Cancer Center | |
| Jules Stein Eye Institute | |
| Local Area Network | |
| Library Administrative Office (located in YRL) | |
| Librarians' Association of the University of California | |
| Library Business Services (library staff who handle billing & fine payments) | |
| Library of Congress | |
| Library Committee on Diversity | |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings | |
| Electronic index - news, business, legal, & reference information | |
| Library Human Resources | |
| Library employee with a graduate degree in library science | |
| UCLA employee who works in the library system | |
| UCLA online library catalog (replaced ORION2 OPAC in July 2004) | |
| Library staff who deliver materials amongst UCLA libraries | |
| Library Information Services (UCLA library unit responsible for library automation, such as ORION programming, MELVYL®, OCLC, and automation equipment) | |
| Library Information System/Development (UCLA library unit responsible for ORION programming) | |
| Library Information System/Equipment and Telecommunications (UCLA library unit responsible for automation equipment) | |
| Library Information Technology (new name of LIS) | |
| List of Journals Indexed (in Index Medicus) | |
| Learning Resources Division (Biomed) | |
| Library Staff Association | |
| Library Services and Construction Act | |
| Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department | |
| Mechanical, Aerospace, & Nuclear Engineering Department (previous name of MAE) | |
| Machine Readable Cataloging | |
| Mathematics Department | |
| Electronic index - mathematics (online equivalent of Mathematical Reviews) | |
| Monographs Cataloged File (ORION) | |
| Marion Davies Children's Clinic | |
| Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval | |
| Electronic index - medical and life sciences journals (MEDLARS Online) | |
| University of California's Online Catalog | |
| Melvyl Transition Catalog | |
| Melvyl on the Web (previous name of CDL) | |
| Medical Subject Headings | |
| Electronic index - Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts | |
| Maps & Government Information (merged with YRL Reference to form RIS) | |
| Microcomputer Information Center (campus) | |
| Medical Library Association | |
| Medical Library Group of Southern California and Arizona | |
| Masters of Library & Information Science (UCLA's library graduate degree) | |
| Library book | |
| Memorandum of Understanding (part of union contracts) | |
| Math Department Reading Room | |
| Materials Science & Engineering Department | |
| UCLA Library e-mail system (along with Webmail) | |
| Murphy Hall - UCLA Administration & student services (admissions, financial aid, registrar, etc.) | |
| North American Collection Inventory Program | |
| Northern California and Nevada Medical Library Group | |
| Extended hours (late night) reading room in Powell building | |
| National Library of Medicine | |
| Neuropsychiatric Institute | |
| Northern Regional Library Facility (storage library for northern UC campuses) | |
| Electronic index - National Technical Information Service (US gov't sponsored tech research) | |
| Office of Academic Computing (provides UCLA students with BOL accounts) | |
| ORION2 Advisory Committee | |
| Online Computer Library Center (formerly the Ohio College Library Center) | |
| ORION EXPRESS | |
| Oxford English Dictionary | |
| old Graduate School of Management (former Management Library location in Public Policy) | |
| Office of Instructional Development | |
| ORION / Melvyl Public Access Advisory Committee | |
| Online User Services Committee | |
| (ORION2) Online Public Access Catalog | |
| Former name of EAL | |
| Previous library search & backend system, discontinued in 1999 | |
| Library search (OPAC) & backend (TAOS) system that replaced ORION in 1999 (replaced by Endeavor Voyager in 2004) | |
| ORION the Next Generation (process of finding a replacement for ORION2) | |
| Online User Services Committee | |
| Company that supplies databases to the library | |
| UCLA internal form for charging services to an account | |
| UCLA Purchasing/Accounts Payable System | |
| Public Access Group | |
| Public Affairs Services (merged with former Maps Library to form MGI) | |
| Someone who uses the library or its services | |
| Professional Development Program | |
| Physics & Astronomy Department | |
| Programming in Computing (computer courses offered by the Math Dept.) | |
| Building that houses the College Library | |
| Public Services Council | |
| Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library (Biomed) | |
| Physical Sciences & Technology Library (former name of SEL) | |
| Building that originally housed Management Department and Management Library | |
| Rare Book Room | |
| Library area where patrons can read and study | |
| Library service that provides photocopy machines & copy supplies to all campus libraries | |
| Reference Core Collection | |
| Request for Proposal | |
| Reference Reading Room | |
| Reference Stacks | |
| Reference & Instructional Services at YRL | |
| Research Libraries Group | |
| Research LIbraries Information Network | |
| Recharge Order Request (same as P-39) | |
| Rosenfeld Management Library | |
| Reference, Research and Instruction Services Committee | |
| Reference Services Forum | |
| Supplies and Expense (fund) | |
| Special Collections Advisory Committee | |
| Steering Committee on Access to Electronic Resources | |
| Southern California Association of Law Libraries | |
| Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care | |
| Shared Collections Acquisitions Program | |
| Alternate spelling of SEL/CH | |
| Electronic index - ChemAbstracts & CASREACT databases | |
| Southern California Online Users Group | |
| Southern California Technical Processing Group | |
| School of Engineering & Applied Sciences | |
| Café by the SEAS (small snack store in Boelter 5800W run by ESUC) | |
| Computing labs & accounts provided by SEAS for SEAS students | |
| Science & Engineering Library | |
| SEL/Chemistry Collection | |
| SEL/Engineering & Math Sciences Collection | |
| SEL/Geology & Geophysics Collection | |
| SEL/Physics Collection (closed December 2003) | |
| SEL Circulation | |
| Alternate spelling of SEL/EMS | |
| Staff Enrichment Program | |
| Online union list of serials holdings (NLM) | |
| Journal or periodical that is subscribed to or acquired by the library | |
| Serials Online (NLM database for serials) | |
| Alternate spelling of SEL/GG | |
| Subject Heading Authority List (one of Biomed's publications, now obsolete.) | |
| UCLA Library e-mail system (replaced by Mulberry & Webmail) | |
| Company that purchased DRA | |
| Special Libraries Association | |
| Systemwide Operations and Planning Advisory Group | |
| Rare and unique library materials | |
| Alternate spelling of SEL/PH | |
| Southern Regional Library Facility (storage library for southern UC campuses) | |
| Statistics Department | |
| UCLA student working for the library | |
| Technical Advisory Contact | |
| (ORION2) Circulation & Cataloging Clients (replaced by Endeaver Voyager 7/04) | |
| Serials File (ORION) | |
| Temporary Powell (structure once used to house College library during Powell retrofit) | |
| Technical Processing Advisory Committee | |
| Technical Services Council | |
| Technical Services Department (YRL) | |
| UC Leadership Institute | |